Men's Golf Opens Season at Pebble Beach

Carmel Cup

Sept. 3-5 / 54 Holes / Pebble Beach, Calif. / Pebble Beach Golf Links / Live Scoring

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The Oklahoma men's golf team is set to open its 2021-22 season this weekend at the Carmel Cup in Pebble Beach, Calif. Played at the famous Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Sooners will tee off against what Golfweek has called the most formidable field in college golf.

The six-count-five, 54-hole tournament features eight teams, with half of the field ranked inside the nation's top 10. The seventh-ranked Sooners, led by 13th-year head coach Ryan Hybl, tee off starting at 10:10 (CT) Friday with Georgia, Mississippi State and TCU.

The Sooners enter the season with high hopes after a 2020-21 campaign that saw the team set records and finish as the national runner-up. Gone from the roster are All-Americans Quade Cummins, Garett Reband and Jonathan Brightwell, but Hybl has reloaded his team with All-Americans Logan McAllister, Patrick Welch and 2020 Big Ten Player of the Year Chris Gotterup, who arrives in Norman from Rutgers. Joining the three All-Americans out west this week are senior Blake Lorenz, redshirt freshman Stephen Campbell Jr. and freshman Drew Goodman.

THE FIELD

No. 19 Arkansas

No. 14 Georgia

Mississippi State

No. 7 Oklahoma

No. 2 Oklahoma State

(RV) TCU

No. 9 Texas Tech

No. 6 Vanderbilt

OU LINEUP

Chris Gotterup, R-SR, Little Silver, N.J. - Transferred to Oklahoma from Rutgers for final year of eligibility ... 2019-20 Big Ten Player of the Year ... 2020 First Team All-Big Ten ... 2019-20 Big Ten Les Bolstad Award (Lowest Conference Stroke Average) ... 2020 NCAA Division I PING All-American (Third Team) ... 2020 Golfweek All-American (Honorable Mention) ... One of the top individual amateurs in the country who finished the 2019-20 season as the highest ranked Big Ten Golfer and No. 23 nationally with a 70.39 adjusted scoring average according to Golfstat ... 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup finalist ... Owns school records in scoring average, par 3 scoring, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring and number of par or better rounds ... MGA & NJSGA Amateur Player of the Year ... 2018-19 Second Team All-Big Ten ... Highest Individual Big Ten Conference Championships finish (T/4, 2019) in Rutgers' history ... All-Big Ten Championships Team (2018-19) ... 2019 New Jersey State Golf Association (NJSGA) Open Champion ... 2019 Met Amateur Champion ... Four-time PING Division I Northeast All-Region selection (2018-21) ... Three-time Preseason All-Big Ten selection (2019-21) ... 2019 Fighting Irish Class Champion ... One-time Big Ten Golfer of the Week.

RANK: Golfstat - 123 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 136 | WAGR - 129

Logan McAllister, SR, Oklahoma City, Okla. - Tied for second-lowest scoring average (71.47) in Oklahoma golf history ... 2021 Golfweek and GCAA PING Third Team All-American ... PING All-Central Region selection ... September 2020 Big 12 Golfer of the Month ... Closed 2021 season ranked No. 26 by Golfstat and 22nd by Golfweek ... Carded a 71.53 scoring average over 36 rounds in breakout 2021 season ... Played in 18 career events for Oklahoma with 17 rounds in the 60s ... Owns two individual wins at 2020 Colonial Invitational and 2019 Nike Invitational ... 10 top 20s, four top-10 finishes.

RANK: Golfstat - 26 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 22 | WAGR - 29 | PGA Tour U - 6

Stephen Campbell Jr., R-FR, Richmond, Texas - First appearance as a Sooner ... Finished eighth at the 2020 Texas State Amateur ... Earned a top-10 finish at the 2020 Dustin Johnson Junior World Championship ... Represented Team USA at the 2019 Junior President's Cup and took part in the 2019 Wyndham Cup ... Set the TAPPS scoring record (131) to win the 2019 TAPPS 5A state championship ... Three-time First-Team All-District and All-Regional selection ... Two-time First-Team All-State honoree ... Billy Horschel AJGA Champion ... Tallied two runner-up and five top-10 AJGA finishes.

RANK: Golfstat - NR | Golfweek/Sagarin - NR | WAGR - 1043

Patrick Welch, SR, Aliso Viejo, Calif. - Won the East Lake Cup in October 2020, firing a 67 ... Career-scoring average of 71.77 is the sixth-best in program history ... Honorable mention All-American as a freshman in 2019 ... Won the drive, chip and putt competition at Augusta National in 2014 ... 25 tournaments played for the Sooners, notching 13 top-20 placements and six top 10s.

RANK: Golfstat - 61 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 33 | WAGR - 86

Blake Lorenz, SR, Peoria, Ariz. - Second appearance all-time for the Sooners ... Made first appearance at the 2019 Carmel Cup where he finished T33 ... Was a state champion as a prep athlete in Arizona ... Brother, Ben, is a sophomore on the OU golf team.

RANK: Golfstat - NR | Golfweek/Sagarin - NR | WAGR - 1992

Drew Goodman, FR, Norman, Okla. - Making college debut ... Two-time AJGA All-American ... Ranked No. 30 in the Rolex AJGA ranking ... Took home medalist honors at 2018 Under Armour Jordan Spieth Championship and 2019 Bass Pro/Payne Stewart Championship ... Ranked 16th in the 2021 class by Golfweek and is the No. 1 prospect in the state of Oklahoma ... Three-time champion of the OJGT/TJGT Red River Challenge ... National Merit Semifinalist.

RANK: Golfstat - NR | Golfweek/Sagarin - NR | WAGR - 804

HISTORY

Oklahoma has made Pebble Beach a second home, playing in the last six renditions of the Carmel Cup. The Sooners won the event in 2018 and finished as the runner-up in 2019, and own a top-four finish in five of the last six Cups.

THE COURSE

Pebble Beach Golf Links sits on the Carmel Bay opening to the Pacific Ocean and is widely considered one of the world's premier golf courses. It hosts the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am annually and has welcomed seven men's major championships, six US Opens and a PGA Championship.

FORMAT

Fifty-four holes will be played over three days, with teams playing 18 each day.

LIVE STATS

Live scoring will be available on Golfstat.com.